While it is true that Ukip really should be offered some seats in the House of Lords, especially if Mr Cameron honours his pledge to make the chamber representative of voting patterns, this would not interest me.
"The controversy will not end in this chamber," Representative Martin Daniel said.
The media had a good laugh at the Chamber's expense (thanks in large part to a real Chamber representative who barged into the press conference in a rage), but the Chamber found the whole thing distinctly unfunny, and promptly filed a lawsuit.
These upper-chamber representatives would not be directly elected by the people, but they would still be elected tribunes of the people.Thus the upper house, be it akin to the Lords, Senate or Bundesrat, would not be able to challenge the Commons as to supremacy but it would still be a democratically elected chamber.Tony McArdle Tipperary, Ireland.
At a stroke, sortition – selection by lot – would achieve Andrew Adonis's and Paul Tyler's objectives (Status quo is not an option, Comment, 23 April) of making the second chamber more representative (in the same way a jury is representative) and cheaper to run (I'm sure most of us would accept a fraction of the daily £300 peers currently get for attendance).
Nodding to the work already done by removing almost all hereditary peers, Lord Falconer said the government needed "to do more" to make the second chamber "more representative of the people it serves".
The absorption coefficients were measured in a reverberation chamber with representative spotlights of 1 kW and 2 kW.
For each assay chamber, 20 representative fields were counted on a Leica microscope at × 200 magnification and the percentage mean invasion index (MII) calculated using the number of cells on the bottom compared with the total number of cells on the top and bottom surfaces multiplied by 100 and averaged for each experiment.
Robert L. Reynolds, the president of Fidelity Investments Institutional Retirement Group, said Fidelity had worried that small-business owners might have become confused and gone elsewhere as Fidelity's plans were offered to them through the chamber, Fidelity representatives and the Internet.
Brazil, after happily devouring its Berners-Lee blessed Internet governance model-for-the-world will say "see our Marco civil for digital rights in Brazil just passed by the first Brazilian chamber of representatives and possibly, the senate.
The decision to call the session in the final hours before Yom Kippur -- which Mr. Gillerman angrily noted was "the holiest day in the Jewish calendar" -- simply added to the tensions in the Council chambers, where representatives of Muslim nations or organizations denounced the Israeli action.
